The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-08

JUDGE FoLLETT, a prominent and highly
honored judge in Michigan, has resigned.
! He has been specializing in wheat and lost
| $4,000 of others money.
THE Nasure Company's cotton mills at
Roudaix, France, have been burned. Loss
| S500,000 Two thousand employees are
thrown out of employment.
JOHN H. FIELD, living near Millwoods,
KY, killed his wife, and when his two sons
came to the rescue he killed them both.
Field then committed suicide.
La France of Paris says that over two hun
dred persons persisted in the Opera-Comique
fire and accuses the authorities of conceal
ing the real number of victims
THREE buildings in Collinsvile, Ct, we've,
with their contents, destroyed by fire. The
loss will reach nearly 100000. A man has
been arrested for setting the fire.
REV. GRANVILLE MOODY, aged seventy
six, the famous Ohio chaplain known as the
" Fighting Parson," died Sunday from in
juries received in a runaway accident.
A PANIC occurred in a cathedral at Chi
| huahua, Mexico, caused by slight fire at
the altar, and several children were killed
and a number of women severely injured.
INTERNAL machines were expressed to
Captain Williams and Inspector Byrnes and
the British consul in New York. The ma
ture of the packages was timely discovered.
JUST one ward in Chicago declared Mon
day in favor of Doodle and anarchy. Except
in the sixth ward the vote throughout the
county averaged three to one against the
twin evils.
THE statement to the effect that the Presi-
dent made up his mind before he went away
to call an extra session of the next congress
for October and so informed his cabinet, is
without foundation.
A TERRIBLE plague of locusts has visited
the central provinces of Spain. The insects
are so thick that gangs of men have been
sent to clear the railway lines. The crops
are fearfully ravaged.
NEWS has Just been received at Manson,
Iowa, that Rev. DR.. Reed, who left the
place last winter to become missionary in
Central Africa, has been killed and eaten
by tribe of cannibals.
THERE is a fierce volcano on the Chihua-
hua side of the Sierra Madre mountains.
A steady stream of lava is pouring into the
valley, and exploring parties are driven
back by the intense heat
NINE. JANAUsCHEK has begun action in
the United States court against Henry Bull,
Jr., of Newport, for the recovery of $4,000
damages for init res sustained by the actress
in falling at the hotel of the defendant.
Mr.. O'BRIEN declined to take part in the
labor demonstration in New York on Satur-
, day night. In a word, the reason he gives
is that he does not wish to complcate the
J Irish cause with any American politics.
The Hotel-keepers' Association in New
York, Sunday, in accordance with the al.
vice of its counsel, Colonel Ingersoll, for.
sock the rigid observance of the Sunday
) liquor law and at several of the principal
hostelries wine was freely served to guests
COLONEL JAMES b. ANDREWS of Pitts
burg, Pa, will return from Mexico soon and
assume active charge of the TehauntepeC
ship railway project as engineer succeeding
the late Captain Eads. Thirty capitalists Of
Pittsburg have Sl5,0O00O0 invested in the
enterprise.
GEORGE FRED WILLIAMS has brought
thrty-two suits against the Boston & Provi
dence Railroad Company as attorney for va.
rious persons in ured at the recent disaster
7 at Bussey bridge. The damages claimed il
these cases vary from $500 to $50 600 and the
| aggregate of the claims is over 100000.
The great Anderson will contest in New
: York was ended Saturday by the jury bring
ing in verdict for the plaintiff, Mary MauC
Watson, wife of Alfred E. Watson of Hart
ford, VT. This verdict invalidates the will
of the old millionaire and affects the title
to the S1S,OOO,000 of property which he lief
indirectly.
a CAPTAIN JACK HUssEY of Castle Gardei
the savior of thirty-four persons from drown
< ing and the proud possessor of number o
medals of honor from congress, the legisla
ture and other bodies, was fatally sho
through the body last Wednesday night b,
Policeman G. Hams in front of his owl
house. The policeman was drunk.
DR.. DANFoRD of London has made al
, extraordinary statement apropos of thu
death by suffocation of little child from
t being accidentally smothered in bed by it
parents declaring that he had had over tw
o hundred such cases before him. A physician
suggests cot as an alternative and sternl
. denounces the practice of babies sleeping
~ between their parents.
A DISPATCH from Key West says: Fv
new cases of yellow fever are reported, an,
the truth has now dawned upon us that W
Il are in the first stages of an epidemic tn
like of which we have not had for man
Il years, but which there is no hope of prevent
ing till the disease has exhausted itself upo
, the thousands of unacclimated inhabitant
u of this unhappy island"
Mrs. RACHEL TEETs of Fairmont, n j
IL who has just died in her ninety-second yeaI
left a remarkably large number of descend
V ants. She was married at the age of eightee
}. years, and in twenty-five years became tn
q mother of twenty chldren-ten boys an,
l. ten girs-seventeen of whom are still liv
:, ing AT the date of her demise she ha
y sixty living grandchildren.
The New York World has had long inter
view with Mr. Blaine regarding his foreig
tour, on which he sails this week, his wifi
and two daughters accompanying him. III
intends visiting England, Germany, Franc
y and Switzerland first, Italy and Spain mex
t, fall, and perhaps Constantinople. He will
probably spend the winter in souther
y Europe. He is in fine health, which he a
is tributes to taking good care of himself
JOHN G. BERNAL, an old man very muc
s. addicted to joking, went into drugstore i
e. Nashville, Tenn, and, going back to wher
the clerk was putting up medicine, sale
10 George, I'm tired of living; what will Xxi
,e me?" The clerk, who was measuring acc
mite, said: Here's something that will XII
- you mighty quick if you drink enoughl
II and pouring out an ounce he handed it
10 Bernal who took it up and drank it. Six {
seven physicians labored with Bernal, br
10 could not save him, and he died in fe
n hours in great agony.
DURING circus performance at Neschei
al Prussia, storm arose and part of the ro
IS of the circus structure was blown Off. I'll
pendant lamps hanging from the roof wei
& broken, and the blazing petroleum poure
of down upon the heads of the people beoy
There were 1000 spectators, and fearf
panic arose. In the midst of the tumult OF
az of the lightly-bult walls of the structul
~ fell in and the whole building immediate
collapsed. A large number of persons we
as burned, many trampled to death and 3
IN others were more or less injured.
Mr.. GLADSTONE Sunday heard a sermo
81 by Canon Smith at Swansea in defence
is the Established Church in Wales. On +
turning from church Mr. Gladstone was IN
yn by an immense crowd escorting a deput
of ton bearing an address to him from Il
citizens of Cork Mr. Gladstone made